From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 10 17:10:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A29516A47B for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:10:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kosio.dimitrov@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3675743D4C for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:10:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kosio.dimitrov@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1325044wxd for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:10:44 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=ps75cyrZTssGNWqBxLDSspO5yjlrUShoCoyM02ILF/dIxIabUX/f7/XxUVfGJqofubl2y3440ae3h+MN1M/8jb5ITbc82/9kl+AqDm7hlkeaA6t2HQF4YsIUgLRTOkTaDGAfXn3/wVEvxwsYtTUE9GIn9H52zqc4QyXz/36/7KQ= Received: by 10.90.100.2 with SMTP id x2mr1349095agb; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:09:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.51.15 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:09:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8103ad500609101009o2ce2a8d9p4f1010b77e144455@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:09:06 +0300 From: "Konstantin Dimitrov" To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: DVB-S under FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:10:46 -0000 are there any work in that direction - support for DVB-S cards under FreeBSD? it would be great to be able to watch digital TV broadcasts under FreeBSD. most DVB-S cards (including new cutting-edge DVB-S2 cards for HDTV broadcasts) are based on Philips SAA7146A multimedia bridge, which has public datasheet and there are "api- and os-independed helper-functions for the saa7146 device driver", that are used in linuxtv.org driver, written by Michael Hunold: http://www.themm.net/~mihu/linux/saa7146/index.html also there is port for FreeBSD of linuxtv.org driver 0.8.x for Skystar1 board revision 1.3 originally written by Stanislav Golovin: http://www.gs.ru/info/si/SS1unix.html my Russian is very poor, but good enough to understand that there is additional work from Alexander Romanov - support for Skystar1 board revision 1.5, Andrei Gritsai (sorry, not sure about the spelling of the name) - FreeBSD 5 support and Ruslan Latypov - FreeBSD 5.x and FreeBSD 6.x support. so Skystar1 (revision 1.3 and 1.5) works under FreeBSD 6.x, but as i can understand the driver has support only for "Internet via satelitte". However if there is no other DVB-S projects under FreeBSD, Skystar1 support is very good starting point, because with hardware modification known as "budget patch": http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_TT_Budget_Patch Skystar1 becomes almost indentical (in term of operation) to all other SAA7146A-based DVB-S cards and future support for them, should be easy, also there are datasheets for all ICs used on Skystar1. i'm awating to hear is it possible to watch digital TV using DVB-S card under FreeBSD or if not, are there people interested in implementing DVB-S support under FreeBSD or maybe currently working for such support.